dryheat
09-21-2013, 02:55
This is going to be a long story.
I love Swede mausers. The first rifle I bought on my own was a Swedish mod. 96. I picked it up at an estate sale in a "you store it" locker(pre storage wars). I should have bought everything there. I just liked the look of it and had to go to a sporting goods store to find out what the caliber was. Here's and interesting tidbit; It was $20 for twenty rds back in 1980. I walked out of there and some how found some Privi ammo for the(fairly expensive in those days)price of .47/rd(maybe it was .37,it seemed high at the time). The rifle cost me $80 and every number matched. I took it out to a canyon and started putting bullets into a little hole up on a cliff while standing. It shot like I remembered my .22 would shoot. I was sold. Anyway, I've owned a lot of Swede's over the years.
I happened to see this sporterized 94 on GB. Most of them are sporterized. The Bubba'ed rework isn't an improvement in most cases. The numbers matched so I bid and won for about $350. 'now an unmolested '94 might go for 7 hundred bucks. A front shroud is $200, a 94 stock is expensive too.
Here's what I did: I got some instructions from someone who did the same thing. I had to find a 96 stock to cut down.
I went up to J & G sales in Prescott and found a long stock that matched the handguard and went from there. I had my very competent gunsmith take the horrible extention off the end of the barrel. Here is the pictorial result.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v643/jerryjeff/_DSC1147_zpsa241b1a3.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v643/jerryjeff/_DSC0944_zpsa613c061.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v643/jerryjeff/swedestory004_zps661c9983.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v643/jerryjeff/swedestory013_zps149d3fbe.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v643/jerryjeff/sprgsbeforecutandblu_zps2bff94df.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v643/jerryjeff/_DSC0997_zps80355a8f.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v643/jerryjeff/biglogs_zps88939877.jpg
It's a little Bubba'ed, I made some mistakes but I smoothed up most of them. When you start carving down for the band springs your into paper thin wood because of the cleaning rod hole. I took this out last weekend and it out shot three other rifles, a scoped, sporterized M 17 and one of my accurate garands.
That made me happy. ser. 63287 man. 1915
I love Swede mausers. The first rifle I bought on my own was a Swedish mod. 96. I picked it up at an estate sale in a "you store it" locker(pre storage wars). I should have bought everything there. I just liked the look of it and had to go to a sporting goods store to find out what the caliber was. Here's and interesting tidbit; It was $20 for twenty rds back in 1980. I walked out of there and some how found some Privi ammo for the(fairly expensive in those days)price of .47/rd(maybe it was .37,it seemed high at the time). The rifle cost me $80 and every number matched. I took it out to a canyon and started putting bullets into a little hole up on a cliff while standing. It shot like I remembered my .22 would shoot. I was sold. Anyway, I've owned a lot of Swede's over the years.
I happened to see this sporterized 94 on GB. Most of them are sporterized. The Bubba'ed rework isn't an improvement in most cases. The numbers matched so I bid and won for about $350. 'now an unmolested '94 might go for 7 hundred bucks. A front shroud is $200, a 94 stock is expensive too.
Here's what I did: I got some instructions from someone who did the same thing. I had to find a 96 stock to cut down.
I went up to J & G sales in Prescott and found a long stock that matched the handguard and went from there. I had my very competent gunsmith take the horrible extention off the end of the barrel. Here is the pictorial result.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v643/jerryjeff/_DSC1147_zpsa241b1a3.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v643/jerryjeff/_DSC0944_zpsa613c061.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v643/jerryjeff/swedestory004_zps661c9983.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v643/jerryjeff/swedestory013_zps149d3fbe.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v643/jerryjeff/sprgsbeforecutandblu_zps2bff94df.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v643/jerryjeff/_DSC0997_zps80355a8f.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v643/jerryjeff/biglogs_zps88939877.jpg
It's a little Bubba'ed, I made some mistakes but I smoothed up most of them. When you start carving down for the band springs your into paper thin wood because of the cleaning rod hole. I took this out last weekend and it out shot three other rifles, a scoped, sporterized M 17 and one of my accurate garands.
That made me happy. ser. 63287 man. 1915